The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), is accepting applications for the Grants for Expansion and Sustainability of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbances program.
Donor Name: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/21/2023
Size of the Grant: Up to $3,000,000
Grant Duration: 4 years
Details:
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to improve the mental health outcomes for children and youth, birth through age 21, at risk for or with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and their families. This program supports the implementation, expansion, and integration of the System of Care (SOC) approach by creating sustainable infrastructure and services that are required as part of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program (also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative or CMHI). With this program, SAMHSA aims to prepare children and youth with or at risk of SED for successful transition to adulthood and assumption of adult roles and responsibilities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Award Amount:
- Up to $3,000,000/year for state applicants
- Up to $1,000,000/year for political subdivisions of states, territories, and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) tribes and tribal organizations
Project Period
4 years
Allowable Activities
- Develop and implement a culturally and linguistically appropriate social marketing/communication strategic plan to promote, develop, and sustain services and systems change when federal funding ends.
- Provide therapeutic recreational activities6 for clients to address treatment goals.
- Provide mental health services (other than residential or inpatient facilities with ten or more beds) that are determined by the individualized care team to be necessary and appropriate to meet a critical need of the child/youth or the child’s family related to the child’s mental health needs.
- Provide trauma– and grief-informed mental health services specifically to youth with SED/SMI who have experienced Sexual or Gender Identity Change (SOGI) Efforts.
- Provide evidence-based family counseling, support services, and mental health resources for families with LGBTQI+ youth at risk of or with SED/SMI.
- Develop a plan to disseminate funds to support the individualized needs of children, youth, and families that are not typically covered services and otherwise not reimbursable. [NOTE: Use of these funds shall be tied into an individual’s plan of care (i.e., treatment plan), should be considered as a temporary solution to address a specific need, and the funds shall be nominal, non-recurring, and approved by SAMHSA.]
- Develop and implement plans to fund, provide and sustain integrated care services between pediatric primary care providers and health systems and youth mental health providers and systems.
- Develop and implement plans to address the crisis of children waiting for mental health care in hospital emergency departments.
- Collaborate with organizations providing residential interventions to ensure that timely and appropriate transitions to community-based services occurs in a seamless and high-quality manner.
- Collaborate with child welfare agencies to ensure that parents do not have to give up custody to obtain mental health services for a child with SED/SMI.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility is statutorily limited to the following:
- State governments and territories (i.e., the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Northern Mariana Islands; the Virgin Islands; Guam; American Samoa; the Republic of Palau; the Federated States of Micronesia; and the Republic of the Marshall Islands);
- Governmental units within political subdivisions of a state (e.g., county, city, town);
- Federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and tribal organizations, as defined in Section 5304(b) and Section 5304(c) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act;
Tribal organization means the recognized body of any AI/AN tribe any legally established organization of AI/ANs which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body, or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of AI/ANs in all phases of its activities. Consortia of tribes or tribal organizations are eligible to apply, but each participating entity must indicate its approval. A single tribe in the consortium must be the legal applicant, the recipient of the award, and the entity legally responsible for satisfying the award requirements.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
